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Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense

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Description for Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense Paperback. In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. This title investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Num Pages: 432 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JWKW; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646.
In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of these Cold War civil defense exercises. Asking what it meant for civilians to be rehearsing nuclear war, she provides a comparative study of the civil defense maneuvers conducted by three NATO allies—the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—during the 1950s and 1960s. Delving deep into the three countries’ archives, she analyzes public exercises involving private ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822339700
SKU
V9780822339700
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About Tracy C. Davis
Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Economics of the British Stage 1800–1914; George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre; and Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture.

Reviews for Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense
“Tracy C. Davis is a leading performance historian, and in Stages of Emergency she applies her considerable skills to a kind of ‘play’ that permeated the consciousness and determined much social reality in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the Cold War. The story she tells, and her analysis of it, goes to the very heart of ... Read more

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